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Psychedelic Salon 168-170 Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, Rupert Sheldrake A private trialogue held at Terence McKennaâs home in Hawaii sometime in 1994. Part 1: What Hawaii Says About Evolution [NOTE: The following quotations are by Terence McKenna.] âI think what life on islands brings home to us is that Earth itself is an island.â âI think the technological principle on which the next century [21st] will operate is a mimicking of nature, solid-state, micro-miniaturized, solar-based, no...
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Psychedelic Salon 117, Terence McKenna on the Importance of Psychedelics Excerpts (Terence McKenna): âCulture denies experience.â âWe live at the end of a thousand year binge on the philosophical position known as materialism, in its many guises. And the basic message of materialism is that world is what it appears to be, a thing composed of matter, and pretty much confined to its surface.â âWeâre literally at the end of our rope. Reason, and science, and the practice of unbridled...
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Psychedelic Salon 270: McKennaTripConsc1982
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Psychedelic Salon 240-242 Terence McKenna - The Philosophical Gadfly (3 parts) PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] âThere are several unexplained anomalies. Why is it that fully 80% of the worldâs known plant hallucinogens are concentrated in the Amazon basin, even though the flora of the Old World jungles of Indonesia is equally rich?â âThe curing scenario of the ayahuascero is easily identified to the curing scenario of shamans world wide.â âI think the word...
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Psychedelic Salon 288: McKennaGreatMonkeyPt2
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Psychedelic Salon 300: BruceLozoSM03
Topics: Psychedelics, Bruce Damer, Lorenzo Hagerty, Terence McKenna
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Psychedelic Salon 123 Terence McKenna-Opening The Doors of Creativity Excerpts: âNature is the great visible engine of creativity against which all other creative efforts are measured.â âThe precondition for creativity is, I think, is disequilibrium, what mathematicians now call chaos.â âThe prototypic figure for the artist, as well as for the scientist, is the shaman.â âThis really is the bridge back to the archaic, shamanic function of the artist, permission to explore the...
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Dennis McKenna interviewed In A Perfect World (Peru, Spring 2010) where he comments about the theories of his brother Terence.
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Psychedelic Salon 228-230 Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham, and Terence McKenna 1998 Trialogue (3 parts) PROGRAM NOTES: âThe development of current brain size is not the reason that there has been this explosion of technical innovation recently. Brain size hasnât changed much for 100,000 years.â -Rupert Sheldrake âItâs much more likely that for most of human history it was not man the huntER but man the huntED. ⦠It wasnât until about 50,000 years ago that there was an improvement in...
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Psychedelic Salon 237-238 A Tribute to Albert Hofmann (2 parts) Terence McKenna, Stanley Krippner, and Andrew Weil (Hofmann Foundation) PROGRAM NOTES: The Albert Hofmann Papers at Erowid.org The Albert Hofmann Foundation (online) [NOTE: The following quotations are by Terence McKenna.] âWhat is the psychedelic experience? What promise does it hold for a sane future for our planet and our children? And what is it about it that kindles the kind of loyalty that I feel coming from the people in...
Topics: Psychedelics, Albert Hofmann, Terence McKenna, Stanley Krippner, Andrew Weil
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Psychedelic Salon 185 Terence McKenna on Shamanism and the Archaic Revival (vision plants) PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotes below are by Terence McKenna.] âPeople without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.â âThe numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.â "The Archaic Revival" by Terence McKennaâAnd I donât mean this metaphorically. I want to be taken...
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Psychedelic Salon 121-122 and 124-126 Trialogue-1991 (five parts) FIRST TWO PARTS This is a two tape set in a series of trialogue tapes that were recorded in September 1991 at a private recording session with Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham, and Terence McKenna. Their first conversation is titled âGrass Roots Scienceâ and then they begin with a new topic, introduced by Terence McKenna and his plan for âSaving the Worldâ. Some excerpts from this two part Trialogue set: Rupert Sheldrake:...
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James Essex, Bruce Damer, Amara Angelica
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Raw Recovered Recording of Bruce Damer in conversation with Terence McKenna at Terence's house in February 1999.
Topics: Terence McKenna, Bruce Damer, Avatars, Virtual Worlds, Space, Volcanos
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Psychedelic Salon 248-251 The Magic of Plants (Rites of Spring) - 4 parts PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] âThe Dawning paradigm of post modern consciousness seems to be the growing awareness that we donât know what is happening at all, that all of the models we have worked out over the past five hundred years or so have now become recursive, and they can no longer be pushed forward as models of explanation. In other words, they are completed.â âThere is not...
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Psychedelic Salon 239 Terence McKenna Shamanism, Alchemy, and the 20th Century (1996) PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna ... recorded in 1996, however, it is current enough to have been given just last night ... maybe it was :-) .] âAnd these angel-dealing, horoscope-casting, alchemy-pursuing visionaries of this Rosicrucian Renaissance became simply objects of historical curiosity, completely incomprehensible to the people who followed them, generation after generation...
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A Crisis of Consciousness Terence McKenna Excerpts: âThese are the two things we donât have: As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As human beings, as individuals, itâs very hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.â âWe have not, in this culture, awakened to the depths of the crisis that surrounds us.â âOur culture is in trouble. Not trouble! We are at a terminal crisis, a bifurcation that can only go one of two ways, horror beyond your wildest imagination, or...
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Psychedelic Salons 141, 143, 149, 161 1992 Trialogue with Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham and Rupert Sheldrake Four parts: 1. Contemplating a Visual Psychedelic Language 2. Rethinking Society 3. The Heavens 4. Reality Check PROGRAM NOTES: 1. Contemplating a Visual Psychedelic Language âI think that any models [of the psychedelic experience] that we can build, verbal, visual, or mathematical are really, really feeble compared to the experience itself.â âRalph Abraham âItâs the Logos-world...
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Psychedelic Salon 267: McKennaExploringAbyss1982
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Psychedelic Salon 245 Terence McKenna on UFOs: Angels Aliens & Archetypes NOTE: This podcast is a âcompanionâ to KMOâs podcast #224 âViral Disclosureâ, which you may also find quite interesting. PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] âThe more serious contenders [for explanations of UFO phenomena] as explanations, I think, fall into three categories. Is it us? Are we being visited? Or is there another tenant in the building that we are unaware of?â â⦠and...
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Psychedelic Salon 174-McKennaPushingTheEnvelope Terence McKenna on Pushing the Envelope PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotes below are by Terence McKenna.] âThe thing is that it is incredibly frustrating to anyone who would control it [the Internet], because you canât predict the impact of any technology before you put it in place.â âHans Moravic says about the rise of Artificial Intelligence, we may never know what hit us.â âIf I were to suddenly find myself a sentient AI on the Net, I would...
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Psychedelic Salon 151 Terence McKenna at AllChemical Arts 1999, Hawaii, on Posthumus Glory PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations below are by Terence McKenna.] âI think disease is (and I donât want to be held to this entirely, but) largely more linguistic than people think.â âThe story you tell yourself is largely the story youâre living.â âNothing is unannounced. This is a psychedelic truth, I think, of some power. And it relates to disease, and it relates to shamanism. Nothing is...
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Psychedelic Salon 234 The World Soul Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake Final tape of the Trialogue 1989-90 (Tape4) which was missing from this Trialogue series PROGRAM NOTES: âI think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.â -Rupert Sheldrake When asked if he believed in randomness, Terence quickly said, âNo,â and then he went on to say, âRandomness is the least likely thing. Nowhere in nature do you...
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Psychedelia: 1992 Terence McKenna article in Esquire Magazine titled "Is Terence McKenna the brave prophet of the next psychedelic revolution, or is his cosmic egg just a little bit cracked?"
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Psychedelic Salon 246 Elves, Egos, and Avatars Bruce Damer at the Fraser Clark Tribute Talks hosted by Jeff Laster at the 2010 Buddhafield Festival in Taunton, Somerset, England Recordings from Terence McKenna are included PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: The following quotations are by Bruce Damer.] âIn life if you let yourself be ruled by fear life becomes a fearful experience.â âIf you shake the Earth, all of the loose objects end in the West Coast of North America.â âThereâs nothing useful...
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Psychedelic Salon 231 Bruce Damer in conversation with Terence McKenna during the Virtual AllChemical Powwow, Hawaii, February 1999 PROGRAM NOTES: In this podcast we have a two-part program that begins with a reminiscence by Bruce Damer about how he came to know Terence McKenna. I then follow that with a recording of one of the last conversations Bruce and Terence had at Terenceâs house on the Big Island of Hawaii just a few weeks before Terence was laid low by a tumor in his brain. One of the...
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Psychedelic Salon 215-217 Terence McKenna Under the Teaching Tree (3 parts) PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] âThe surface of things is not where attention should rest.â Terence McKenna at home in Hawaii, Spring 1999âIâve never actually seen it [smoked DMT] hit anybody quite as hard as it hit me. For about fifteen minutes all I could say was, âI canât believe it!â ⦠This is no drug. Itâs magic. It masquerades as a drug. Itâs a doorway into another...
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Psychedelic Salon 128 Terence McKenna-The State of the Stone Excerpts: âIâm very pleased ⦠to see how much of the youth culture has become sensitive to the psychedelic issue. Because it really means that after 20, 30 years of unstinting distortion and misrepresentation by the media and some of the powers that be, that nevertheless the curiosity is intact, the opportunity is available, and people have not been fooled by the effort to denigrate, dumb-down, sideline, water down, sell out,...
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Psychedelia: Raw Archives of Terence McKenna Talks
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Psychedelic Salon 200 A Few Words From Our Elders Guest speakers: Gary Fisher, Sasha Shulgin, Ann Shulgin, Myron Stolaroff, Baba Ram Das, Timothy Leary, and Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: SASHA SHULGIN: âSo I looked upon these materials as being catalytic, not productive, they do not do what occurs, they allow you to express what is in you that you had not had the ability to get into and express yourself without the help of the material.â Scanned image of the copy of Saint Veronica's Veil...
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Psychedelic Salon 223-226 Terence McKenna on Hermeticism and Alchemy (4 parts) PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] âHuman beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.â âIn a Christian context magic is heresy because it implies that man can command god to act. In other words that in some strange way the magician compels nature to behave as the magician desires.â âThe Hermetica actually refers to humanity as the brother...
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Psychedelic Salon 201-206 Terence McKenna - Appreciating Imagination at Esalen (6 parts) PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] PART 1: The imagination is actually a kind of window onto realities not present. Terence McKenna at EsalenâIf the imagination runs riot in the dimension of the mundane itâs paranoia.â âArt is like the footprint of where the imagination has been.â âBelow the ordinary surface of space and time, ruled by relativistic physics, there is this...
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Psychedelic Salon 275: McKennaBerkeley1983
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Script for Terence McKenna: Beyond 2012 series, Esalen, June 16, 2012 Read as part of a workshop titled âTerence McKenna: Beyond 2012â led by Dr. Bruce Damer and Lorenzo Hagerty at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California on Saturday June 16, 2012. Find recordings of this reading at the following web sites (accessed March 6, 2013): http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/?p=595 and https://archive.org/details/PsychedelicSalon316Damerdeepdive This work was composed by Dr. Bruce Damer from...
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Psychedelic Salon 187-191 Terence McKenna at CIIS on The Ethnobotany of Shamanism (5 parts) PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] âMost software, I think, is written by freaks.â âWhat it [investigating psychedelics] really requires is a love of the peculiar, of the weird, the bizarre, the étrange, the freaky and unimaginable.â âNature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.â âDMT seems to argue, convincingly I...
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Psychedelic Salon 316: DamerDeepDive Dr. Bruce Damer's Deep Dive into the Mind of Terence McKenna Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California, June 16-17, 2012 This program is a recording of part of a workshop held at the Esalen Institute near Big Sur, California, titled "Terence McKenna: Beyond 2012" and led by Dr. Bruce Damer and Lorenzo Hagerty. This specific recording took place on Saturday morning, June 16th 2012, and consists of Dr. Bruce's "deep dive" into the mind of...
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Psychedelic Salon 132 Terence McKenna and Matt Pallamary McKenna: âShamanismâ and Pallamary: âSpirit Mattersâ Excerpts: [NOTE: The following quotes are by Terence McKenna.] âShamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred.â âThe sine qua non for obtaining a...
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Psychedelic Salon 102-McKenna-June-29-1994 Build Your Own Damn Boat Excerpts: 05:33 Terence begins with a discussion of âthe felt presence of immediate experience.â 08:10 Terence McKenna: âThe thing I like about the Zippy culture and the house, trance-dance, techno culture is that itâs about feeling. The combination of young people, drugs, a fairly sexually charged social environment, and syncopated music is just all designed to draw you into you and your friends and your scene, and your...
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Terence McKenna interviewed on NPR (KQED radio) by Michael Krasny in San Francisco, March 1999. This is one of the final interviews of Terence as his brain tumor was detected only a few weeks later. In the interview Terence talks about many subjects but one of interest was his recent experience with Bruce Damer exploring and building "avatar" virtual worlds.
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Psychedelic Salon 287: McKennaGreatMonkeyPt1
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Psychedelic Salon 150 Terence McKenna on UFOs PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations below are by Terence McKenna.] âI think reason can take us only a certain distance, and then we have to go with the divine imagination.â âThere have been many episodes in the history of science where great hope gave way to paranoia.â âThe [UFO] hysteria has become more explicit and has wandered in first one direction and then another, but if this is a contact itâs the most peculiarly un-contact-like contact...
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Psychedelic Salon 146-McKennaBeingHumanSeattle Terence McKenna in Seattle on The Importance of Human Beings PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations below are by Terence McKenna.] âWhat Iâve observed, and I think itâs fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what Iâve observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity.â âThis is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost...
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Source images from the "Terence2012" project hosted by Dr. Bruce Damer to honor and explore the life and works of Terence McKenna in the year 2012. These images were used in movies, podcasts and artwork. Thanks to Dennis McKenna, James Essex, Michael Horowitz, Galen Brandt and others for providing these images.
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Transcripts of talks by Terence McKenna produced by Leonardo Burci
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Psychedelic Salon 282: McKennaHowEvolution
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Psychedelic Salon 299: BruceLozoSM02
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Psychedelic Salon 211 Terence McKenna Empowering Hope in Dark Times PROGRAM NOTES: Introduction of Terence McKenna by Timothy Leary, followed by Terenceâs talk. [NOTE: The following quotations are by Terence McKenna.] âWhatâs the hang-up here? What is the problem? Why is perfection so distant?â "Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World" by Paul StametsâAlchemy, as Iâm sure many of you know, is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter. ⦠The central...
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Psychedelic Salon 176-177 Terence McKenna on Surfing Finnegans Wake (2 parts) PROGRAM NOTES: PART ONE [NOTE: All quotations below are by Terence McKenna.] âIn some ways, I think it can arguably be said that this is the quintessential work of art, or at least work of literature, of the twentieth century.â âThe reason Iâm interested in it is because itâs two things, clearly. âFinneganâs Wakeâ is psychedelic, and it is apocalyptic/eschatological.â Terence McKennaâWhat I mean by...
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Psychedelic Salon 221 Terence McKenna on Evolving Times PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] âWhat I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. Itâs a kind of tuneless singing.â âSometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence, a situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land, all were in dynamic balance. And...
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Psychedelic Salon 116: Terence McKenna, Mark Pesce Techno Pagans at the End of History Esalen Institute, 1998 Excerpts: 04:40 â Mark Pesce: âI knew that part of my own destiny as connected with virtual reality wasnât to escape into another dimension but to find a way to make real to us the things that we canât always see because we exist at a level of scale, of experience, that hides them from us.â 06:29 â Mark Pesce: âBecause where weâre going, the simulated and the real are going to...
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Psychedelic Salon 114: Terence McKenna on Psychedelic Society Excerpts: 04:33 âWhat I think a psychedelic society, what that notion means or implies to me in terms of ideology, is the idea of creating a society which always lives in the light of the mystery of being. In other words, that solutions should be displaced from the central role that they have had in social organization. And mysteries, irreducible mysteries, should be put in their place.â 06:44 âMuch of the problem of the modern...
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